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Cloudflare (NET) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials

Cloudflare's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.

What the evidence says now

NET closed at $293.05 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +9.3% from its 50-day average and +33.7% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +37.8%, beating SPY by 34.7%. It remains 11.8% below its 52-week high.

Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓
Source
Split-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts
Methodology
All symbols resolve through one SEC issuer identity; each block keeps its own vintage and missing evidence remains missing
Updates
Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonLast: 2026-08-21
Maintained & reviewed by Yuriy Matso — methodology shown on the page.
The answer · NET stock2026-08-21market close
Established uptrend
$293.05+5.1% 1D

The close is +9.3% from its 50-day average and +33.7% from its 200-day average. Over three months, NET returned +37.8% versus +3.1% for SPY.

vs 50-day
+9.3%
vs 200-day
+33.7%
From 52W high
-11.8%

Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.

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Price & regime

1 month
+11.7%
21 sessions
3 months
+37.8%
SPY +3.1%
6 months
+65.4%
126 sessions
1 year
+51.7%
252 sessions
YTD
+48.6%
Prior year-end close
20D volatility
59.5%
Annualized daily returns

One year of daily price and volume

252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below

Open full chart →
52-week range: $158.83–$332.22Latest volume: 0.64× its 20-day averageLatest dollar volume: $762M
02

Unusual options — attention, not intent

NET appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 1 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 1 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.18, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.

Call-side
1
Put-side
0
Both sides
0
Recent flagCall rankPut rank
2026-06-09#19
Archive: 2026-05-232026-08-21. The top 30 are cross-sectional ranks. “Call-side” and “put-side” do not identify the trade initiator or whether contracts are part of a spread.

Latest chain snapshot

2026-08-21
Call composite
-0.46
Outside top 30
Put composite
-0.18
Outside top 30

Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.118 calls, 0.097 puts.

Researched catalyst context

2026-08-10

Aug 10: Cloudflare announced a proposed $2.175B private offering of convertible senior notes due Aug 15, 2031 (up to $325M more at the purchasers' option) and, separately, FedRAMP High authorization for its government platform — landing on top of momentum from Aug 6 Q2 results (revenue $696.1M, +36% YoY, FY guidance raised to $2.864–2.870B).

Cloudflare runs a global edge network for content delivery, security and serverless compute, increasingly positioned around AI traffic (management said over half of Q2 network traffic was non-human). The stock closed at a record high on Aug 10, so the move extends the post-earnings breakout rather than reversing anything — notable since convertible-offering announcements often pressure shares. Watch the notes' pricing terms and capped-call details for dilution math, and whether the record multiple holds through Q3.

Source: Cloudflare via Business Wire, Aug 10
03

Curated-manager ownership

1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Cloudflare position in their latest filing, worth $116M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.

Fund / managerPosition valuePortfolioSharesQuarter changeReport date
Baron Capital Group
Ron Baron · NET
$116M0.17%471,598
+3.1%
increased
2026-06-30
13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter-end. Values and shares are filing snapshots, not live holdings. Options rows are excluded. Open the 13F Consensus Tracker →
04

Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot

Q2 FY2026 revenue
$696M
+35.9% YoY
Net income
−$170M
-237.0% YoY
Free cash flow
$68M
Operating cash flow − capex
Gross margin
71.8%
Period ended 2026-06-30

Go deeper into the filings

The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.

Open NET Financials →
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How NET trades — the working manual

Cloudflare operates a global network that delivers security, performance and developer services close to users. For the stock, traffic scale and product breadth must produce larger customer relationships, durable retention and improving cash economics while the company continues investing in network capacity and new compute products.

What can move the tape

  1. 01Growth in large customers and expansion across application, network and developer services.
  2. 02Dollar-based retention, sales productivity and enterprise contract duration.
  3. 03Adoption of Workers and AI-related inference workloads on the developer platform.
  4. 04Gross margin, network capital intensity, operating leverage and free-cash-flow conversion.

What can fool the read

  1. 01Hyperscalers and security vendors can bundle competing products into larger customer relationships.
  2. 02Network outages or security failures can damage trust across multiple products at once.
  3. 03Capacity investment can run ahead of monetization when new workloads scale more slowly than expected.
  4. 04A premium valuation increases sensitivity to retention, bookings and margin guidance.
Unusual share volume

Cloudflare triggered 6 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-012026-08-21 archive. The latest was NET on 2026-08-10: 2.2× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +5.1% that session.

Earnings-reaction base rates

Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported NET events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.

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Source map & freshness

BlockWhat it usesVintageRaw data
IdentitySEC issuer + primary security mapping2026-08-23JSON ↓
Price & trendSplit-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison2026-08-21CSV ↓
OptionsEnd-of-day chain anomaly ranks2026-08-21Premium →
OwnershipLatest filings from 20 curated 13F managers2026-08-21Tool →
FinancialsSEC EDGAR XBRL company facts2026-08-16JSON ↓
Joined profileThe exact contract rendered by this page2026-08-23JSON ↓
07

NET stock questions

Is NET stock in an uptrend?+

NET is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +9.3% from its 50-day average and +33.7% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.

What does unusual options activity in NET mean?+

Cloudflare's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.

Are the NET 13F holdings current?+

No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.

Where are NET's income statement and cash flow?+

The dedicated NET Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.

Why is there no NET earnings-move base rate yet?+

The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.